[GPSCC-chat] The Audacity of War Crimes

[Gerry Gras]

Time to revive the Silicon Valley Impeachment Committee?

Gerry


Brian Good wrote:
>
> Probably Obama's most important historical legacy will be the fact that
> by failing to
> investigate and prosecute the constitutional assaults and international
> crimes perpetrated
> by the "Mad Cowboy" Bush, he acted by precedent to permanently place
> these usurped
> powers in the presidential toolbox.
>
> I was not aware that our brothers and sisters at Veterans for Peace had
> voted in a
> resolution last August calling for Obama's impeachment for war crimes:
>
> "for failure to uphold his sworn oath to protect and defend the
> Constitution of the United
> States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic, and for his
> commission of war
> crimes, crimes against humanity, obstruction of justice and the
> violation of numerous
> national and international laws, treaties and conventions.”
>
> http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/09/13/vets-for-peace-calls-for-impeachment-of-obama-for-war-crimes/
>
>
> http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_Obama_accessory_to_war_crimes_0127.html
>
> http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/18/daniel_ellsberg_joins_peace_activists_risking
>
> http://www.salon.com/2011/03/21/ralph_nader_obama_impeachment/
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/02/the-constitutional-crimes-of-barack-obama/
>
> http://jonathanturley.org/2010/12/02/wikileaks-obama-administration-secretly-worked-to-prevent-prosecution-of-war-crimes-by-the-bush-administration/
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-turley/constitutional-rights_b_1213234.html
>
>
> The liberals' pleasure in enabling a black president has blinded them,
> and the argument that
> political reality dictates Obama's inability to prosecute the Bush
> regime--because it would incite an
> armed redneck rebellion--is so effective that it needn't even be stated.
>
> I do not subscribe to grand theories that the Illuminati or Outer-Space
> Reptiles or the Bohemian
> Grovers secretly run the world, but I do notice that if some secret
> cabal wanted to formally by
> precedent augment the power and authority of the chief executive to
> permit throwing people in
> the dungeon, wiretapping, unbridled military aggression, torture, and
> arbitrary secrecy, they would
> choose a black president to fulfill their agenda.
>
>
> Obama appears in Redwood City May 23.
> https://my.barackobama.com/May23RedwoodCityReception?custom1=4966739
>
> I will be there with a big sign that says
>
> THE AUDACITY OF
> WAR CRIMES
>
>
>
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